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MAROON AND GOLD
Comninaki To Lead
SGA In Next Year
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1969
THEY HAVE LED ELON JUNIOR CLASS THIS YEAR
(Continued
Chris Walsh, of Rich
mond, Va., vice-presi
dent; and Beth Brincker-
hoff, of Richmond, Va.,
secretary-treasurer.
The leaders for the ris
ing junior class are Bob
Lane, of Virginia Beach,
Va., president; Todd
Bridgford, of Rockville,
Md., vice-president; and
A1 Blom, of Staten Is
land, N. Y., secretary-
treasurer.
Sally O’Neill, of Syca
more, 111., was unoppos
ed for the post of secre
tary-treasurer of the ris
ing senior group; but a
new balloting appeared
in the making to settle
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the race between Frank
Mensch, of Siler City,
and Tom Short, of Roan
oke, Va., for senior pres
ident; and the race be
tween Ursula Analus, of
Port Chester, N. Y,, and
John Paisley, of Mc-
Leansville, for the sen
ior vice-presidency.
In addition to this spe
cial senior balloting,
other choices remaining
at the time this story was
written were the elections
for the Honor Court and
the Student Senate. These
were set for last week,
with all incoming student
officers to be installed in
ceremonies set for Mon
day, May 5th.
Spring Weekend Planned
To Get Underway Today
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Liberal Arts Symposium.
Sally O’Neill, Elon Col
lege junior from Syca
more, 111, is chairman in
charge of arrangements
for the Spring Weekend
festivities. Working
closely with her is Neil
Henning, of Richmond,
Va., who has been SGA
entertainment chairman
during this 1968-69 col
lege year.
Other members of the
regular Spring Weekend
committee include Nina
Martin, of Jacksonville,
Fla,; Bonnie Moore, of
Winston-Salem; Terry
Rice, of Arlington, Va.;
Katie Patrick, of Hamp
ton, Va. ; Gail Beck, of
Ocean, N.J.; York Poole,
of Chesapeake, Va.; and
Bob Lane, of Virginia
Beach, Va.
Library Group
Holds Meeting
Here At Elon
The Greensboro Li
brary Club, including li
brary personnel from the
immediate Greensboro a-
rea, visited the Elon cam
pus on April 22nd for a
tour of the new Elon Col
lege library and for a din
ner meeting held in Mc-
Ewen Memorial Dining
Hall.
The Elon Home Eco
nomics Department ser
ved refreshments during
the two-hour “Open
House” tour of Elon’s new
library in the afternoon;
and Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy,
president of A. and T.
University, was guest
speaker for the dinner
meeting in McEwen Din
ing Hall.
Malone Is Elon Speaker
Dr. Kemp Malone, pro
fessor of linguistics and
philology at Johns Hop
kins Unversity, became
a last minute addition to
the slate of lecturers who
appeared on the weeklong
Liberal Arts Forum sym
posium held last week.
When Dr. Bryce Lyon,
of Brown University,
found himself unable to
come to Elon due to ad
ministrative duties at
Brown, Dr. Malone ac
cepted an invitation to fill
the vacancy that was left
on the program for the
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After leading the Junior class activities through this 1968-69 term to this date,
the junior class officers pictured above will be turning the class leadership over
to newly elected successors next week. At that time, on the occasion of installa
tion of new SGA officers, a new group will assume leadership of the Class of 1970
for its upcom ’ng final year. Thisyear s junior officers, pictured left to right above,
are Dave Harrison, of Norfolk, Va., vice-president; Cynthia Brinn, of Virginia
Beach, Va., secretary-treasurer; and Phil Larrabee, of Virginia Beach, Va.,
president.
Dr. A vizonis Suffered Perils
And Tragedy In War Years
night of Monday, April
21st.
It was a second lecture
visit to Elon for Dr. Ma
lone, who had been here
last spring as one of the
speakers for the annual
spring symposium held at
that time. In his address
on his second visit this
year, he once more prov
ed himself to be an out
standing authority in the
field of Medieval history.
Dry ice is solidified carbon
dioxide gas.
As Dr. Konstantinas
Avizonis untimely death
brought sadness to stu
dents, faculty and staff
of Elon College last week,
so it also recalled for
many of his friends mem
ories of the almost stran
ger than fiction life that
Dr. and Mrs. Avizonis
led prior to coming to
Elon College twenty years
ago.
Many Elon students who
have been in his classes
in recent years or have
met him as he moved
quietly through the hall
ways and colonnades of
Elon have not realized
that he and Mrs. Avi
zonis came to Elon after
sharing perilous and tra
gic experiences in their
native Europe during the
bitter World War II years.
A native of Lithuania,
where he was born in
1909, his father was both
a physician and an educa
tor, for he was the son
of Dr. Petras Avizonis,
who served as dean of the
medical school and presi
dent of the University of
Lithuania.
It was in the educa
tional footsteps of his fa
ther that Dr. Konstanti
nas Avizonis chose to fol
low, and after receiving
his early education in his
native land he went on to
Berlin to earn the M. A.
and Ph. D. at the Univer
sity of Friedrich Wil
helm, majoring in East
ern European history.
While in Berlin Dr. Avi
zonis witnessed the early
rise of Adolph Hitler to
power in Germany, but
he left Nazi Germany be
fore Hitler gained full
power and began work as
a researcher in the Ar
chives of Krakow, which
dated back to the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries,
his chief interest being
Lithuanian history.
He spent nearly Six
years compiling data
from unpublished sources
for his great work on
“Nobility In The Lithuan
ian State Life At The Time
Of The Reign Of Asa.”
This was a 592-page work
written in German. He al
so spent some time as an
instructor in the govern
ment boy’s school or
gymnasium in Kaunas in
Lithuania.
He also assumed in
1938 duties as manager
and scientific secretary
of the Institute for
Lithuanian Language,
History and Ethnology.
During the unsettled days
of early World War II
he was a member of the
faculty of the Lithuanian
University at Vilnius and
worked with the Lithuan
ian Academy of Sciences.
Then came the Russian
occupation of Lithuania
in 1940, when 30,000 Lith
uanians were deported to
Siberia during two days
in June. About 5,000
teachers and thousands
of ministers were deport
ed, and fifteen of Dr.
Avizonis’ own relatives
were in the unfortunate
group, their ages varying
from small babies to per
sons 70 years of age.
Worse still was the
German occupation by the
Nazis on June 21,1941,
when universities were
closed and many persons
became forced workers
for the Germans. Dr. and
Mrs. Avizonis escaped
that first grab by the Ger
mans, but the summer of
1944 saw themamongthe
many intellectuals taken
to German labor camps.
Dr. Avizonis himself
was assigned the task of
digging trenches for Ger
man defense against the
French and American
troops, and Mrs. Avi
zonis was assigned to du
ties in the kitchen of one
of the many German hos
pitals.
As Allied bombing in
creased in late stages of
the war. Dr. Avizonis was
liberated from his en
forced labor when French
soldiers entered the city
of Freiberg on April 23-
24, 1945, and he later be
came a lecturer in Al-
bert-Ludwig University
in Freiberg, where he
taught Eastern European
and Russian History un
til 1948.
Dr. Avizonis’ estate
had been confiscated by
the Russian Communists,
so it was with great joy
that he and Mrs. Avizonis
were able to complete
arrangements to come to
America, the arrange
ments being made through
his brother then living in
Connecticut.
He and Mrs. Avizonis
came to Elon College in
the autumn of 1949 to
begin his twenty years of
service in languages and
history that culminated
with his untimely death.
During those years he
continued his research
and writing and gained
acclaim as a true au
thority in history and cul
ture of Eastern Europe.
Mrs. Avizonis, who
came with her husband to
Elon, had also been a
teacher in Lithuania, but
after coming to Elon she
studied library science
at the University of North
Carolina and had held a
position in the library at
Chapel Hill until she join
ed the Elon faculty last
fall. _________
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